{"id":495,"date":"2008-03-01T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/01\/things-that-only-happen-in-movies-top-14\/"},"modified":"2008-03-01T14:11:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T12:11:04","slug":"things-that-only-happen-in-movies-top-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/01\/things-that-only-happen-in-movies-top-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that only happen in movies (top 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood! Movies! There’s no other place where:<\/p>\n

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  1. If the hero starts dancing, suddenly, everybody around knows the steps and dance with them.<\/li>\n
  2. Any car hit by a bullet immediately explodes in a cloud of flames, a mere rivulet of oil turns into a fire ball.<\/li>\n
  3. An ugly girl only has to remove her glasses and untie her hair to transform herself into an iridescent beauty queen.<\/li>\n
  4. If you look languorously into the eyes of a woman, music always starts to play (even if there is no stereo in the room). Ain’t it handy?<\/li>\n
  5. In car pursuits, you only have to zip through crossroads for all others to halt in tire shrieks. No need to check the traffic lights…<\/li>\n
  6. In car pursuits, you just need to speed up to fly over wide gaping spaces (gravity seems nullified provided that you can push the pedal hard enough!)<\/li>\n
  7. The first truncheon hit systematically sends the bad guy either to sleep or flying through the room like a ball on a pool table.<\/li>\n
  8. The hero will only yield to baddies after dozens of hits by a large group of hulking champion weight-lifters.<\/li>\n
  9. All computers are fifteen years ahead of current technology and blinkingly beautiful (no dull grey boxes, but nice blinking lights or impressive 3D graphics interface).<\/li>\n
  10. Baddies are always easy to recognize in a crowd. They are ugly, dirty and grimacing (if not with a scar on the face). Why doesn’t the police use this kind of clue<\/em> in movies while the same kind of profiling is used routinely in our streets?<\/li>\n
  11. When the hero enters an unknown derelict space ship, he has no difficulty finding and operating the door lock, the ship’s controls and the hyper-space radio.<\/li>\n
  12. When we see a distant explosion on screen, the sound is never late (is speed of sound as fast as speed of light in movies?).<\/li>\n
  13. Radio-activity makes objects glow in the dark (it’s useful since we wouldn’t see it – Many scientists including Pierre and Marie Curie would have wanted to know that they just had to switch off the light in their laboratories!)<\/li>\n
  14. In the void of empty space, sounds are deafening: Shrieking spaceship rockets can be heard from the other end of the galaxy despite the total lack of atmosphere to transmit it.<\/li>\n
  15. A detective cannot solve a case before he has been suspended for insubordination<\/li>\n
  16. Even when the road is straight, if you drive a car, you must continuously swing the wheel right and left<\/li>\n
  17. The wounds of the hero will not make him even wince, except when a gorgeous woman is trying to clean them<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hollywood! Movies! There’s no other place where: If the hero starts dancing, suddenly, everybody around knows the steps and dance with them. Any car hit by a bullet immediately explodes in a cloud of flames, a mere rivulet of oil turns into a fire ball. An ugly girl only has to remove her glasses and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,18,25,26,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-culture","category-entertainment","category-film","category-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}